Kharagpur is an industrial town in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India. At Kharagpur is one of the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and one of the biggest railway workshops in India with the longest railway platform in the world (1072.5 m). Kharagpur has an Air Force station in Kalaikunda and it also has one more station present in Salua. There have been plans by the IAF to allow civil flights in Kalaikunda
